seem

Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

intransitive v. To give the impression of being; appear: The child seems healthy, but the doctor is concerned.

intransitive v. To appear to one's own opinion or mind: I can't seem to get the story straight.

intransitive v. To appear to be true, probable, or evident: It seems you object to the plan. It seems like rain. He seems to have worked in sales for several years.

intransitive v. To appear to exist: There seems no reason to postpone it.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

v. To appear; to look outwardly; to be perceived as.

v. To befit; to beseem.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

intransitive v. To appear, or to appear to be; to have a show or semblance; to present an appearance; to look; to strike one's apprehension or fancy as being; to be taken as.

transitive v. To befit; to beseem.

from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

To be fit or suitable.

To appear; have or present an appearance of being; appear to be; look or look like; in a restricted sense, be in appearance or as regards appearance only.

To appear; be seen; show one's self or itself; hence, to assume an air; pretend.

In an impersonal reflexive use, to appear: with the person in the dative, later apparently in the nominative as the quasi-subject of seem in the sense of ‘think, consider’: as, me seem, him seemed, they seemed, the people seemed, it seems to me, it seemed to him, them, or the people (meseems being often written as a single word).

To appear to one's self; imagine; feel as if: as, I still seem to hear his voice; he still seemed to feel the motion of the vessel.

Synonyms Seem, Look, Appear. Look differs from seem only in more vividly suggesting the use of the eye, literally or figuratively: as, it looks (or seems) right. Appear is somewhat stronger, having sometimes the sense of coming into view or coming to seem. Each may stand for that which is probably true, or in opposition to that which is true: not to seem, but to be; the seeming and the real. Should seem and would seem are equally correct, but differ in strength. To say that a thing should seem to be true is to say that it ought to seem so or almost necessarily seems so; to say that it would seem true is to say that, while there are reasons for holding an opposite view, the preponderance of evidence is on the side of its being true.

Examples

Also, I should have understood 'boots' where you wrote it, in the letter in question; if it had not been for _the relation of two things_ in it -- and now I perfectly seem to see _how_ I mistook that relation; ( '_seem to see_'; because I have not looked into the letter again since your last night's commentary, and will not --) inasmuch as

Questions about whether Palin knew what she was getting into by using the term seem to miss the mark when it comes to the approach that she has adopted in her public pronouncements since bursting on the national political scene as Republican Sen. John McCain's vice presidential running mate in 2008.

In the development of metaphysical Idealism in the post-Kantian philosophers, the notion of abstraction becomes very general, so general in fact that the origi - nal meanings of the term seem almost lost.

Hmmm … The title seem to be apt considering the relationship position this two lovelies are in but the delicious twist in this yummy tale is that Deepika was considered when the London beauty in her Bollywood duty our dear Katrina walked out of the film as she didn't wanted to be in competition with Priyanka (she can't control her tongue nowadays you know).

To be fair, sequels represent a fine line to walk, between not wanting to spoil what made the predecessor (or franchise as a whole) successful, while still trying to add enough to make the title seem worth it.